Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...relieving the purely military situation it undoubtedly has been a godsend; but if could ascertain its effect on the German proletariat we should doubtless find that it has tremendously increased the difficulty of keeping the German autocracy in the saddle. There is reason to think that the German Emperor and his adviser are today viewing the question of peace more from the standpoint of maintaining intact the existing bureaucratic government than from any other angle. It is not that they are in terror of being overwhelmed in the field, but the first care of a autocrat is always...
...front against the Czar's troops in the early days of the great war. He was an Austrian subject. He did his duty as he saw it. And if Americans had not much use for Franz Josef, they did not feel their sympathies going out very strongly to the Emperor Nicholas...
Children of French soldiers are left orphaned after every battle. For most of them there is no means of obtaining the necessities of life save through gifts. If the German Emperor had never had dreams of Weltmacht, and been content to hold to his central domains, many brave Frenchmen would now be living in peace, and their children would look to their fathers for support. But the ambition of a foreign emperor brought havoc in lands not under his control, and as a result the orphans of France call to America...
...whispered that the German Emperor is not adverse to the council. Perhaps he bears a deeper love to the Russian socialist than the holder of the same political tenets nearer home. However, the Emperor's interest is not necessarily the indication of a turn towards democracy...
...developments in China in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Mr. Drew was secretary of the embassy of Li Hung Chang to the United States in 1896, and was chairman of the executive committee of the Medical School of China. He was twice decorated by the former Chinese Emperor. He is also ex-president of the Royal Asiatic Society of Shanghai and a Fellow of the Eastern Asiatic Society of Boston...